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jim acosta is there, he joins us now. >> what more are you learning about these comments said about john mccain? >> we find ways to find new lows, that's what happened earlier today. kelly sadler, in charge of surrogate communications, was at a communications staff meeting with other white house staffers this morning, and the discussion came up about gina haspel. also opposition to gina haspel. he was tortured when he was a pow when he was in vietnam. he doesn't want to support gina

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta.talk about the president's legal issues right now. who is taking over for ty cobb? this is another major legal shakeup on the president's team. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. ty cobb, the president's inside attorney you could say over here at the white house, not one of his outside lawyers, but has been at his side for several months is stepping down. just last month, the president preferred to ty cobb as his special counsel in a tweet defending his own white house team. but confirming in a statement to reporters just in the last several minutes that ty cobb is stepping down. we can read that statement to you. it says, for several weeks ty cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let chief of staff john kelly know he would retire at the end of the month. interesting to note, wolf, some of the i guess time stamps in that statement saying that this was notified to john kelly last week, that may be an indication that the white house would like to tamp down any speculatio

i want to go back to jim acosta over at the white house for us. , the president spoke out, tweeted about this, but he also made a public statement. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. we should also point out the flag has been lowered to half staff. the flg being lowered after another mass shooting in this country, and one at a school this time down in texas. the president, as you said, he spoke to the public earlier today. he was at an event on prison reform. but at this event he vowed to have his administration do everything possible to prevent school shootings in response to this massacre down in santa fe, texas. facing another shooting on his watch the president noted the massacres are a problem that the nation has faced for decades, and here's more of what the president had to say. >> this has been going on too long in our country. too many years, too many decades now. we grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack. to the students, families, teachers, and personnel at

that we are told as jim acosta was reporting earlier, that made ty cobb and others a little apprehensive here. ty cobb really since he joined the white house, and he's a lawyer inside the white house, he works in the white house every day, he has been trying to play the role of good cop. he has been trying to assist with all the white house staffers who are interviewed, all the documents that the special counsel's office was requesting for. . he has been sort of apprehensive about the president's increasing, you know -- his anger really boiling over often certainly privately and on twitter as well. so it's in one hand not a surprise at all that he is leaving. it was more of a surprise that the president decided to hire emmitt flood, whose name has been fleting ut. he is someone who worked inside the bush administration counsel's office, was involved in the clinton impeachment as well. so he's has so this is an aggressive posture here we're about to see certainly executing, brook. >> what about jeff switching girls. trump threatened to interfere with the department of justice. the justice

jim acosta, thank you. jim acosta in tennessee for us. joining us now, the democratic congressman of new york. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me on. >> let's begin with your reaction to the that mueller is deliberately meddling in the upcoming elections. is the president trying to erode public faith in the investigation and more importantly, in democracy? >> this has been one of the problems with the donald trump presidency from the beginning. he consistently has faced a choice. he could either act presidential or he can act like a paranoid political opportunist. he's continued to do the latter. he's serving his own petty political interest as far as he sees it. one of the reasons why i think he continues to go down this road is that he has had a failed administration. they failed on health care. tried to take away health insurance from 23 million americans and imposed an age tax in people over the age of 60. he's failed on infrastructure. put forth what we call a fake infrastructure plan that would do nothing t

jim acosta joins us.answers from the white house not easy to come by. >> reporter: that's right and the technical term is stone walling. the same answers that basically she is not in the position to answer these questions that are really designed for and aimed at the president's outside legal time. i asked her in the briefing today, can we get the outside legal team into the briefing room to get answers and she said she would attempt to make that request. i did talk to michael cohen, his arch nemesis, make cha-- michae avenatti. the president does have a new member of the team inside the white house, emmett flood. sarah sanders said rudy giuliani would not appear. the stone walling is not working. >> i mean, one possibility is they are refusing to answer more questions because so much of the questions have to do with the president's legal matters. or refusing to answer questions because they don't want to. >> reporter: i think that is exactly right. the questions that are being asked about michael cohen a

jim acosta of cnn likes being on tv. and what planet that is anything resembling normal because it's not. she shouldn't be here talking about prison reform. it is very nice that she is here. that is not a serious thing to have happen here at the white house. pete: shouldn't be there. he was sing a different tune in 2015. thanks to magic of videotape, this is jim acosta talking about john legend when obama was president. >> i will push the president to get more involved in criminal justice reform. i'm going to suggest some ideas that we think could help improve the situation. >> if you change your mind about running for office, give cnn the scoop. >> i will. i will. pete: little bit of different tune there, dana. >> hugely different tune, hugely, bigley, because this is jim across at that. jim acosta is partisan. he doesn't hide the fact he is a partisan. i wish people would stop unnecessarily hammering the administration, even on things they know they agree on or things that they know aren't that big of a deal but they d

i'm jim acosta. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and we are following breaking news. new fallout in a blistering critique of rudy giuliani's first interview as the trump's new lawyer. a source used an expletive to see how the legal team reviewed his performance and even as the president and rudy giuliani try to walk back the bombshell statements about the stormy daniels case. and the president's lawyers and robert mueller are making a final push toward a decision on an interview with the special counsel office. the president spoke about the russia investigation a short time ago right here on cnn and the speech to the nra saying, quote, i love fighting these battles. we'll talk about all of that, the breaking news and more with congressman jared konlt -- jared connelly and our reporters and experts are standing by. >>> but first to the white house and pamela brown. shock waves from rudy giuliani's remarks are still being felt over there. shock waves and i gue

as you said, our jim acosta was inside that press briefing. he joins us now from the white house. jim, answers from this white house, not easy to come by on this subject these days. >> that's right, john. and i think the technical term for all of this is stonewalling. sarah sanders has given us basically the same answers over the last couple of days that basically, you know, she's not really in the position to answer these questions that are really designed for and aimed at the president's outside legal team and of course, i asked her in the briefing today, well, can we get the president's outside legal team into the briefing room so we can ask some of these questions and get some answers, and she said she would, i think, attempt to make that request. i should point out, i did talk to michael cohen, his arch nemesis, michael avenatti, in all of this, just a short while ago and he said he would like to see the president's legal team, perhaps rudy giuliani, in the briefing room. the president does have a new member of his legal team inside the white house, emmet flood, who is an offi

a source telling my colleague jim acosta stating this is political strategy. he is trying to use it as a political weapon to defend himself and further to try to energize his base. that source telling jim they believe it is bad for the country and likely will continue to get worse as the russia probe moves forward. dave and christine. >> boris, thank you. >>> president trump weighing in on the fallout over roseanne's racist tweet demanding an apology instead of condemning the tweet. this is the easiest thing you have to do, but here is what the president did instead. bob iger called valerie jarrett and apologized. he never called and apologized to me. maybe i just didn't get the call. here's the white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> where was bob iger's apology to the white house staff over the jemele hill? and joy behr for the mental illness? where was abc after kathy griffin? that is the double speak. the comments are inappropriate. that is the point he was making. >> following the backlash that she was ambien tweeting. roseanne said it was an explana

let's go to jim acosta. >> reporter: president trump is floating unproven conspiracy theories.ustice department placed a spy inside the trump campaign, quote, for political purposes. mr. trump has done this before. this time one of his own lawyers, rudy giuliani, admits mr. trump does not have all his facts straight. >> in a new rant on the russia investigation, president trump took more swipes at federal investigators tweeting a story he claims could be bigger than water gate. reports are there was at least one fbi person implanted for political purposes. it took place early on and before the russia hoax was a hot fake news story. if true, all time biggest political scandal. and citing fox news, he added apparently the doj put a spy in the trump campaign. it's never been done before and by any means necessary, they're out to frame donald trump for fra crimes he didn't commit. rudy giuliani said he and the president aren't sure there was an inform faant. >> here's the issue. we're told there was one. >> by whom? >> by people who for a long time we've been told there was some ki

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>> let's go to chief correspondent jim acosta. how do these line up with what we heard from the administration, because it's not just the president that's made misleading comments about this in the past, you heard the same from sarah sanders. >> jim, it's a beautiful day in washington, but the storm clouds are over the white house with the story of stormy daniels. the inconsistencies line up because they are, by all appearances, falsehoods and in some cases outright lies. the president has been asked on multiple occasions about this. at one briefing sarah sanders said the president didn't know anything about this, although sarah sanders may have been in the dark about all of this. here's how sarah sanders answered this question a couple months ago. >> i've had conversations with the president about this, and as i outlined earlier that this case had already been won in arbitration and that there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations. >> the president strongly, clearly and has c

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. m, you're getting new information from your sources, update our viewers. >> that's right, wolf. we've been able to confirm a story that came out in the hill earlier this afternoon that kelly sadler, who is an assistant to the president, works at the white house with communications with surrogates apparently said at a meeting this morning among other communications staffers in reference to senator john mccain's opposition to gina haspel's nomination to run the cia, "it doesn't matter" according to a white house official -- excuse me, kelly sadler said "it doesn't matter because john mccain is dying anyway." according to an official who coffin fi confirmed this. this was thought to be a joke told by kelly sadler to other white house staffers but according to this white house official the joke "fell flat." we should point out the white house that has released a statement to try to clean up this mess and this is from a white house official, there's no white house spokesperson putting their

let's get to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. he profiles a conservative and more may be on the way. what is behind the latest move? >> reporter: a new episode of president trump's white house version of "the apprentice." this time the presidential pardon edition. he is pardoning a darling to the far right, d s'souza and seem detached from reality. >> we are going dallas. we are going to houston. we are going to have a little fun today. >> reporter: president trump left washington for texas, sounded like he was contemplated a reality tv catch phrase, not you are fired, but you are pardoned. he started for a far right commentator, d'souza, accused of violating campaign laws. tweeting they tried to extinguish my american dream and destroy my faith in america. thank you, mr. trump, for restoring both. tweeting karma is a bitch, known for loading racial commentary. >> the white guy is not welcome at the multicultural picnic. >> this attack on barack and michelle obama. asked why he pardoned d'souza, he said i never met him. i called

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. >> chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us from the white house. jim, strong words from the president. but does he have a plan b when it comes to iran after withdrawing from the nuclear deal? >> reporter: it doesn't sound like it, wolf. we've heard from our senior diplomatic sources overseas that they're concerned the president, the white house does not have a plan b when it comes to dealing with iran, and what would happen, for example, if tehran restarted their nuclear program. you heard the president say they would be met with severe consequences. the president also talked about fire and fury in the context of the north korean nuclear program last year. and now the president is heading towards it appears an upcoming summit with kim jong-un and these prisoners that were being held by north korea, these american detainees on their way back to the u.s. the president tweeting this morning that he's going to be there at joint base andrews in the middle of the night to greet them. so he is obviously delivering some mixed messages in all of this. but th

let's bring in our cnn source jim acosta. he says to expand an existing review to include the president's latest demand. will that be enough? >> it may not be enough, wolf. talking to a source who is close to the white house earlier this morning who advises this white house from time to time on its me sssaging and strategy was saying the president was firmly convinced his campaign was spied on before the 2016 election. whether or not any of that was tethered to reality remains to be seen and the mueller probe may put some of those questions to rest, but that is how they feel inside this white house. i will tell you, wolf, there are questions about this informant's activities inside the white house among the president's legal team both inside the white house and outside the white house, i should say. i've talked to many who are inside the president's legal team. and they say, listen, we don't know the full extent of these activities before the 2016 election, and until they get those answers, they feel they need to find out wha

but straight to the chief white house correspondent jim acosta, the president is talking tough about iran and may soon be talking directly with north korea. >> that is right. just as president trump is trying to deescalate tensions with north korea and welcoming home the american prisoners detained by the regime, he is ramping up the rhetoric on iran and did so today and warning of severe consequences as he put it if tehran reactivated the nuclear program and he may find them to be tough negotiators, something candidate trump talked about during the campaign. >> closing in on what may be the biggest reality tv moment of his life, president trump is nailing down plans for a summit with north korean dictator kim jong-un. >> they're just working out amainments. >> will it be at the dmz. >> it will not. >> reporter: while celebrating the arrival of three prisoners released by north korea and on the way home. >> right now, flying back are three what they were calling hostages. we call them fine people. really fine people. seem to be healthy. >> reporter: he's still tamping down expectatio

this is all according to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta, who we'll talk to in just a second. according to other reports, emmitt flood will replace cobb. he represented president bill clinton during his impeachment process and former vice president dick cheney when he was sued by former cia officer valerie plame. to jim acosta with the scoop this hour, maybe everyone saying this was semi-expected, that was a bombshell you just broke. >> reporter: i think this is big, brooke. it indicates there are some big tensions inside the president's legal team, or at least there were as of a couple of hours ago. ty cobb departing the president's legal team. i'm told by a source familiar with ty cobb's departure that he had been clashing with the president for weeks, over his posture towards the mueller investigation, that he did not want to be quote of a, quote, mud slinging campaign, that he was uncomfortable with the president's tweets and he did not want to go down this path of clashing with the special counsel's office. we understand that ty cobb had been counselling a much mo

let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the president has been tweeting about this, but he isn't talking about this subject, is he? >> reporter: that's right, wolf, i tried to ask the president about this in the oval office earlier today. other reporters trying to ask the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, in the briefing room. they're just not commenting. silence is the commentary over here at the white house. like the russia investigation. but you're right, wolf, the president did go after the leak of these questions, some four dozen questions to "the new york times," questions that we're told robert mueller would like to ask of the president in the context of the russia investigation. we could put the tweet from the president up on screen. there's one particular item in the tweet we can point out. we don't have to read the whole tweet but in the middle it says no questions on collusion. that is just a falsehood. that is definitely not the case. if you go through the list of questions that were leaked to "the

i want to go to cnn chief correspondent jim acosta. this is a legal mess and perhaps a political mess as well. >> reporter: a mess in more ways than one, that's right. the white house back on its heels, insisting they were unaware he reimbursed his attorney for money he paid to stormy daniels until that was revealed by one of his other attorneys, rudy giuliani. asked repeatedly whether the president and other officials had been lying to the american people, the white house opted to admit it was basically in the dark. >> what a day. what a beautiful day. >> reporter: skies were clear, storm clouds turned for the president who joined christian conservatives for a national day of prayer. >> mr. president, why are you changing your story on stormy daniels. >> reporter: just as the white house was scrambling to explain bombshell revelation from rudy giuliani, that mr. trump repaid his personal attorney for hush money he paid to porn star stormy daniels who claims she and the president once had an affair. >> sorry, i am giving you a fact now

cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us live. jim, we know the president spoke with the french president emmanuel macron earlier in the day. macron is trying to persuade him to stay in the iran deal. what are you hearing about that conversation? >> wolf, what we're hearing about that conversation and other conversations is that all indications are at this point that president trump will begin to either fully or partly withdraw the u.s. from it rthe nuclear deal. the devil is in the details and we'll get those details this afternoon at 2:00 when the president makes that announcement in the diplomatic room here in the white house. i've been talking to a number of sources this morning. a diplomatic source telling me they're equally optimistic in great britain about what the president will announce because they would like the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear deal. the u.k., france, all sounding like the president is going to make an announcement he's pulling out of the deal. i just talked to a congressional source in the last couple m

let's go to jim acosta. the president has shown he is granting pardons early and to do so often. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. a white house official talked to reporters in texas with the president traveling there, saying no, the president is not just considering celebrities for presidential pardons but sure seemed that way today. seemed like a new episode of president trump's white house version of the apprentice. this time the presidential pardon edition. the president not only announced he is pardoning darling of the far right, but he added he is considering leniency for two former stars of the apprentice, making the white house again seeming tee tachd from reality. >> we are going to dallas and houston. going to have fun. >> reporter: he sounded likes he was contemplating a catch phrase, not you're fired but you're pardoned. it started with a man convicted of violating campaign laws. thank you, mr. trump, for restoring both. this is a win after former prosecutor tweeted karma is a bitch. well known in

right to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. rudy giuliani keeps creating problems for the white house. >> reporter: that is right. last week the president said rudy giuliani couldn't get his facts straight. so today the white house said he adds value to the president's legal team. the white house of course shied away from questions about the president's legal troubles and the stormy daniels case and the russia investigation as we saw earlier today. aides to the president have gotten burned in the past with statements that turned out to be untrue. and today they were much more careful with their words. >> the only scheduled appearance of president trump, an embrace with the first lady as she unveiled a campaign aimed at the nation's children. >> that moment came less than an hour after the white house press secretary stated cautiously that she's not aware of any other hush money payments to women alleging affairs with the president. >> i'm not aware of any other activity, but i would refer you to rudy giuliani to respond to any

we begin with jim acosta. you are learning new information about the very significant changes in the trump legal team. >> that is right. president trump's legal team is changing again as you said. this time it is white house lawyer ty cobb who is stepping down. he had advocated caution on the president's legal team but a source tells cnn cobb was clashing with the president over his attacks on the special counsel investigation. >> reporter: it could be the most ominous shake-up on the trump legal team yet, ty cobb who counseled the president for months to stob attacking -- to stop attacking robert mueller is out. cobb told cnn, i've done what i came to do in terms of managing the special counsel requests and i'm extremely grateful to the president and chief of staff john kelly for the opportunity to serve my country. but a source familiar with cobb's departure tells cnn the white house lawyer was uncomfortable with the president's tweets hammering mueller and wants no part of a mudslinging campaign making it c

fake news correspondent so-called jim acosta.e a listen. >> what article dealing with your children when they are having a bad or onerous day or dealing with jim acosta? >> probably depends on the day. both of them can wine pretty regularly. they both like to ask the same questions and sometimes their tone needs to be adjusted a little bit. >> sean: i would say the bigger baby is acosta. anyway, that's all the time we have this evening. we are always going to be fair and balanced. we are never going to beat the destroy-trump media. thank you for being with us. always set your dvr, never miss an episode. let not your heart be troubled. by the way, why is your picture all over -- more as ratings. my ratings are high too if you know. we are number one in cable and you are killing it and i'm happy and proud of you. >> laura: hannity, first of all, your show tonight was awesome. >> sean: it ruins reputations. >> laura: i can watch sara carter, john solomon, i could watch them for the whole night. those guys are just like energy, facts

wolf. >> a lot of uncertainty right jim acosta at the white house. let's dig deeper with our chief national security correspondent jim chuta. the iaea, the international atomic energy agency said iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal. dan coates the director of national intelligence said the same thing and mike pompeo said there is no evidence iran has violated the terms of the agreement. has the president come up with some specific new violations that justify this action? >> he hinted at something new but the fact is the intelligence doesn't back it up. on compliance with the iran nuclear deal, u.s. intelligence agencies, officials an the president's appointees and the secretary of state mike pompeo during his confirmation and dan coates the director of national intelligence say that iran is complying with the deal. what president trump referred to was new israeli intelligence about what iran's intentions were regarding having a nuclear weapons program. now we know from my colleague, our colleague orren leiberman, the prime minister b

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our chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the latest. the president is clearly irate that these mueller questions have now been made public? >> reporter: that is right, wolf. the anger is not going away. the president tweeted but it but would not talk about the leak that the questions special counsel robert mueller has for mr. trump in the russia investigation. on the subject of collusion, when it comes to the president, there seems to be some confusion. >> no comment in the oval office, president trump tweeted his frustration over "the new york times" obtained more than four dozen questions expected to be asked by special counsel robert mueller in the russia probe. so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russia witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. i see you have a made-up phony crime and collusion that never existed. in an investigation with illegally leaked classified information. nice. but there were questions that go to the allegation of collusion. like when did you become aware of the trump tower

our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, is joining us. by putting its nuclear program, we're told, on standby to resume. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. iran is sending those signals tonight and president trump is rolling the nuclear dice, putting the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal. national security adviser john bolton told reporters earlier this afternoon that sanctions on iran are now in the process of being reimposed, but by all appearances, the trump administration does not have much of a plan for stopping iran from pursuing nuclear weapons at this point as one top european official put it, there doesn't appear to be a plan "b." for the u.s., it's a deal no more, as president trump abruptly pulled the u.s. out of the agreement designed by the obama administration to prevent tehran from developing nuclear weapons. >> the iran deal is defective at its core. therefore, i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. >> reporter: the president didn't hide why he's scrapping the

more now on the president's reaction to the roseanne barr controversy from cnn's jim acosta at the white house. so, jim, the president's tweet, sarah sanders' comments today, it is all sort of out of the white house's playbook. >> it really is, anderson. this was hardly a teachable moment today unless this was teach the country how things should not happen at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. i mean, this was a day when the white house press secretary came into the room and instead of saying, well, the president's tweets speak for themselves, which she often does say, she decided to go ahead and jump on the trump please apologize train and insist that a lot of people owe the president an apology. and of course, i tried to ask as she left the room today, she wouldn't take a question from cnn, but i tried to ask as she left the room, where are the president's apologies for all the things he has said since the begin of his campaign? remember, he launched his campaign by saying mexican immigrants coming into the u.s. are rapists and criminals and then throughout the course of the campaign, and the p

this is what sarah sanders, her trying to dance around jim acosta's questions about that just today. >> you said on march 7th there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all these allegations. were you lying to us at the time or were you in the dark? >> the president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim, and again i've given the best information i had at the time, and i would refer you back to the comments that you yourself just mentioned a few minutes ago about the time line from mayor giuliani. >> more lies about north korea when president trump tweeted the obama administration was unable to get three americans released, even though two of those americans were detained with trump in the white house. even lies about the size of his inaugural crowd. >> that was the largest crowd to ever witness an inauguration period. >> that was the first day. remember that? as "the washington post" reports today, quote, it's become standard operating procedure for trump and his aides to deceive the public with false statements and shifting accounts. in

jim acosta bragging about treating all presidents the same. >> say once and for all. >> i'm say onceving on to james simpson. i will not take another question from you. >> can you give us a question. can you -- >> i'm not taking your question. >> can you -- >> you are fake news. >> i want to ask you sir. >> i'm changing it from fake news. >> doesn't that -- >> very fake news. ♪ . . >> are you their least favorite of all? >> probably, but as fdr once said i welcome their hatred. >> you do? >> i do. when i covered barack obama, i was just as tough on him. people might not believe that. [ laughter ] >> jim acosta claiming he's always been tough with presidents. you be the judge, take a listen. >> i wanted to ask you what some people are calling your best week ever. >> all right, that was a question to president obama, your best week ever. >> here's "the evening edit." >> i want to have peace in the world, that's what i want, more so than the nobel peace prize or any other prize, i'd like to see peace ideally in the middle east but in the entire world, and i think we have a chance of doi

michael cohen was asked directly by our jim acosta whether he thinks the message was being sent here, message was, what do you think? yikes. >> he recognizes some of the threats he made for other people. michael cohen, he threatened "the daily beast" reporter about a story that we were writing at the time. michael cohen is seeing his life turned upside down and game recognizes game, i guess. >> yet another headline that i thought would be the lead this morning until these questions all came out late last night is chief-of-staff, david, john kelly, has called the president a quote, idiot on multiple occasions. nbc cites four people, four officials who say they witnessed the comments, not just they heard them secondhand. he calls this story b.s. now what? >> i just have to say the president's allies are using "the national enquirer" to go after his enemies which is a pretty sort of starling development for the presidency. very 2018 infinity. with mr. kelly, the reporting is thorough and i think the reporting is solid. it's a very convenient story for kelly's enemies inside the white hou

i want to turn now to jim acosta as he is there in the briefing room awaiting sarah sanders. the president is not expected to have any public appearances today, so this is really the first chance to hear from the white house about these 13 angry democrats as the president put it and their conflicts of interest. what are we expecting and just set us straight on some of what the president has said. >> reporter: i'll do my best. that is a difficult task sometimes as you know. but when the president was tweeting earlier this morning, we believe that he was tweeting in reference to the 13 angry democrats people that apparently work for the special counsel robert mueller. but that is obviously a question in a sarah sanders will be asked here in a few moments. the other issue that she will be dealing with obviously is the fallout from the comments, series of comments, from rudy giuliani over the weekend. he tried to clean up some of the previous comments that were i guess not really something the president wanted to hear. over the weekend, rudy giuliani spoke on the abc "this week"

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howie: the question was from jim acosta, were you lying to us or were you in the dark? howie: is that fair? martha: i think she this the dark more than she is lying. i think press secretaries do not want to lie from the podium. they don't. she says often this is the information i have, or i haven't asked the president about this. i refer you to the lawyers. being in the dark is a better place for her to be than lying. but that also raises questions. howie: not a comfortable place to be. "new york times" has those 49 questions the mueller investigation wants to ask the questions. they were notes taken by trump's legal team. president trump tweeted this was so disgraceful. but the leak appeared to have come from his hide. emily who is strategically leaking. it's like playing clue. you try to pick up the clues. howie: the reaction from many on the left is these questions are so broad, there is no way any president should sit down from him. very different takes on the questions. philippe: the first thing that struck me is hillary clinton had been given the questions before

first let's go to the white house and cnn chief correspondent jim acosta. jim, it is evident today they're facing a credibility crisis. >> reporter: absolutely. the white house was back on the heels today with officials insisting they were unaware that the president reimbursed michael cohen for stormy daniels until revealed by rudy giuliani. asked repeatedly whether they were lie og the american people, the white house didn't have any answers. >> what a day. what a beautiful day. >> reporter: the skies were clear and the storm clouds returned for the president who joined christian conservatives for a national day of prayer. >> mr. president, why are you changing your story on stormy daniels? >> shame on you. >> reporter: just as the white house scrambling to explain a bombshell revelation of rudy giuliani that mr. trump repaid his personal attorney michael cohen for the hush money paid to stormy daniels who claimed she and the president once had an affair. >> sorry, i'm giving you a fact now you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violat

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first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, this is another sign the trump legal team is getting more combative. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. president trump's legal team is changing again. this time, it's white house lawyer, ty cobb, who is stepping down. he had advocated caution on the trump's legal team, but a source tells cnn that cobb was clashing with the president over his attacks on the special counsel's investigation. it could be the most ominous departure on the trump legal team yet. ty cobb, the white house lawyer who had counseled the president for months to stop attacking special counsel robert mueller is out. cobb told cnn, i've done what i came to do in terms of managing the white house response to the special counsel's requests. i'm extremely grateful to the president and chief of staff john kelly for the opportunity to serve my country. but a source familiar with cobb's departure tells cnn, the white house lawyer was uncomfortable with the president's tweets hammering mueller and wanted no part of a mud

. >> so keith, jim acosta asked michael cohen about that, when asked if a message was being septembern told cnn, twha do you thi -- what do you think? >> he's the king of understatement. of course there's a message being spent. anyone who pays $150,000 to pay off a playboy playmate obviously has an interest in protecting that president of the united states. the "national enquirer" serves some sort of function of unofficial state publication. nobody takes the "national enquirer" seriously. it's not a very reputable publication. it's known as a rag. but at the same time, it does speak for the president of the united states. and if the "national enquirer" is saying they -- >> since when, keith? >> let me finish and then you can interrupt. it does speak for the president of the united states in the sense that it is definitely portraying his message out there. obviously whenever you have a publication out there that tries to kill a story that's harmful to the president, that's a publication that's speaking for the president of the united states. >> it's a publication that's been involved i

a white house official was telling cnn jim acosta that flood and kelly's presence did not help with theized. a source telling gjim acosta. we should note that a separate administration source says it was always the plan for them to leave after kelly's remarks. our two next guests, jeffre toobin and professor allen dershowitz. why is it appropriate for flood for him to be at this meeting yesterday? >> well if i am a defense lawyer i try to be at any meeting i am not kicked out of. their job of the defense lawyer is to find out anything he can in whatever way he can as long as it is legal and ethical and the other side is prepared to let him listen. if there is anyone to blame it is the people who let him into the meeting. >> rudy giuliani assumes that flood was in the meeting because the president wanted him to be. does this give the appearance that the white house is trying to abuse their authority. >> i don't know about abuse their authority, but this whole enterprise, this fake controversy about a spy is about one thing, it is about discrediting the mueller investigation. and potentia

our jim acosta is traveling with him. has the president had anything to say about her comments?porter: not yet. we should point out he does have the teleprompters up for his speech tonight. they don't completely keep him going off the rails but sort of keep him on track. the white house press secretary did tell reporters that they don't have any comment on the roseanne controversy, that the president has more important things to do. but obviously the president has been focusing on petty things over the last 24-48 hours as we have been sigh in his tweets. even this morning he accused special counsel mueller of plotting in the midterm elections coming up this fall. he is at this rally here in nashville not because he is worried about mueller but because jitters that exist inside the republican about losing the congress. if the president has to campaign in red states like tennessee means they are worried about this. as we have been seeing over the last weekend, he has been engaging in a lot of fake news himself. >> we will continue to watch what he says, back now with dr. cornel we